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Ownership is changing
How we think about owning things is evolving. But we often still use old measuring sticks to make new decisions.
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From two theaters to none
My hometown used to have two movie theaters. Now there are none. And yet the market for movies remains without corporations.
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Sell your possessions, and give alms. (Proper 14C)
The easiest and hardest teaching at the same time. Sell your stuff and give the money to the poor. Just like that.
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Debt — the enemy of faith
Debt it is often treated as the neutral arbiter of balance. But it is the way we justify inequality, enslavement, and separation.
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Canceling student debt is a good start
We allow people to offer a dishonest critique of the argument for cancelling student debt based on false powerlessness.
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There is no normal to return to
“Going back to normal” is a deeply pessimistic idea. And it represents a fatalism we cannot afford to encourage.
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Full Employment and Other Failures of Words
The first problem with the way we talk about our economy is that we use phrases that don’t mean what we think. The second is worse.